According to reports, Turkey launched airstrikes against kurds in bases in northern Syria and neighbouring Iraq, killing eleven people including a journalist, in response for the bomb attack in central Istanbul last sunday. Reportedly, Bulgarian special police forces arrested three men of moldovan origin and a man and woman of syrian kurdish descent following negotiations and cooperation with prosecutors in Turkey. Reportedly, Bulgarian prosecutors have charged five people of supporting terrorist acts in connection with the bomb attack in a popular shopping street in the Taksim square area in Istanbul. According to the report, the five people have mainly been involved in trafficking through Turkey and smuggling, there is not enough evidence to support the supporting terrorism charge.
Last Sunday’s bomb attack on the westernised republic of Turkey was innitially thought to be the work of isis; or possibly a kurdish group, as post world war I Turkey would not agree to Kurdistan, resulting in the land being carved up by the league of nations to what is now eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and northern Syria. Reports are that deaths and injuries have occurred in the kurdish majority city of Kobane in northern Syria and two villages.
During the Syrian war, isis and the Syrian army were fighting in northern Syria. According to a report, in 2011 at the start of the civil unrest of the arab spring calling for the removal of Assad, the Turkish government condemened the Syrian government but later backed the syrian army. The conflict resulted in many kurds fleeing to Turkey.